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UP
John Harrison York – President
Cody Katz – Vice President of Finance
Mamatha Challa – Vice President of Administration
Mary Pat Sinclair – Vice President of Programming
Amanda Signorelli – Vice President of Public Relations

The purpose of this document is to outline and provide the undergraduate student body of
Washington University with the UP slate’s vision for the Executive Administration of Student
Union. This document will present our ideas to meet the mission of Student Union and
engage the student body to create a more perfect campus community.
Student Union often falls short of truly serving and empowering students on campus through
difficult bureaucracy, unknown policies, and restrictions placed on funds. Unique and
engaging ideas and initiatives are stifled by lack of information and help in from their
inception. UP’s goal will be to reduce these barriers and create opportunities for students to
make our community truly vibrant in the manner they wish to see. Students must be
equipped with the tools, resources, and abilities to translate ideas into realities.
This document forms a base for UP’s agenda in the coming year. However, this does not
serve as UP’s only goals for the year. This document should serve as a beginning for
discussion and debate on how best to advocate, program, and allocate the Student Activity
Fee. UP will not be limited to these ideas, and our hope is that further input will lead to
bigger and better ideas and eventual changes.

Making a commitment to bringing a
big name speaker to campus
• Creating a separate Treasury
appeals account of $120-150K
strictly for student groups to
appeal for one speaker for the
Assembly Series
Utilizing the Social Programming
Board as a means for large scale
and collaborative programming
• Establishing a co-programming
fund for the SPB to incentivize
collaboration amongst
member groups and to provide
outside student groups with
the opportunity to co-sponsor
large events on campus
• Expanding the number of
groups on the Board with non-
voting representatives from
NSA, CS40, and Red Alert to
take into account the biggest
programmers and events on
campus
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Opportunities for
Big Programming
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Establishing a campus
programming calendar
• Using Google Calendar and
Live @ Edu calendar, the
calendar would be shareable
and viewable to anyone
• Managed by the Vice President
of Public Relations
• The calendar would be
included in every all school
email, placed on the website,
and referenced by Treasury
when seeing appeals
Utilizing the newly opened “Rat”
(the old Subway space) in a
dynamic way for students
• Placing big screen TVs, a
sound system, and new
furniture in the space so that
students can eat, hang out,
study, etc. and have another
space to call their own
• Providing on-campus weekend
programming by partnering
with student groups to put on
events such as trivia nights
and happy hours throughout
the year
• Marketing the space to be
used in conjunction with the
Gargoyle for social events and
parties by student groups and
Greek organizations

Creating Opportunities for Off-Campus Engagement
Creating opportunities for students
to perform service and engage the
community
The greatest barriers student groups
and students face in participating in
community service are
Transportation, Funding, and Time.
We will address each of these
issues:
• Working with service groups to
develop a method of covering
transportation costs for other
service initiatives and
programs that are led by
students
• Providing funding
opportunities for students
looking to do service projects
• Reducing the time cost of
community service by working
with the University to expand
the number of service-oriented
classes and allow students to
earn credit hours for their
service.
Additionally, student groups often
do not have the time or the contacts
to find opportunities to serve. For
this reason, SU began Engage 360
to identify and plan service trips for
groups. UP would like to expand this
program in the coming year by:
• Establishing bi-weekly service
trips to the targeted area (the
22nd Ward)
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Bursting the Bubble
Students discuss the inability to
truly experience St. Louis due to a
lack of opportunity and knowledge
of what the city has to offer. UP
plans to address these concerns by:
• Providing transportation to
different parts of the city
throughout the year for
weekend and special events
• Creating a series of speakers
to come on campus to talk
about St. Louis and the
challenges it faces, the
opportunities it holds, and
ways to get involved.
• Offering students a taste of St.
Louis cuisine by partnering
with local restaurants to
provide free food samples in
The Rat throughout the year
• Working with Senate to gather
student input on the expansion
of the use of campus card
points to restaurants and
shops beyond Bobo and
Kayaks
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Creating Opportunities for Student Initiatives
Students face considerable
obstacles when attempting to make
their ideas into realities in the
areas of lacking funding,
information, and specialized skills
• Funding: Providing funding for
“Idea Bounce” events for
students on a wide array of
topics including technology,
art, on-campus issues, etc.
• Information: Formalizing the
process for SU and SIL
policymaking, writing and
updating a policy handbook
encompassing all University
policies. Having an SU
representative follow up
regularly with newly approved
student groups to help them
navigate through processes in
SU
• Specialized Skills: Utilizing the
Technology Manager as a
resource for students and
student groups and to hold
training sessions open to all
students so that they can
develop these abilities
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UP plans to create opportunities for
all students to participate in SU
programming and dialogue
• Holding monthly focus groups
with campus leaders and
randomly selected students to
discuss issues of concern and to
anticipate and stay proactive on
future problems
• Mandating that all SU
representatives complete
Diversity Training from the
Diversity Affairs Council and
including it as part of retreat
• Working with all programming
entities within SU to ensure that
the SAF is allocated towards
programs that are offered at the
lowest cost as possible so as not
exclude students who cannot
afford to participate in certain
events, but have also paid their
SAF